Section 365: Reduction of impairment loss debits where group relief claimed
1159.This section provides the basic rule: where group relief is surrendered to a consortium member (or a member’s group company) by the consortium company and there is an excess of impairment losses over credits arising on loans to the consortium company, those impairment losses are reduced by the group relief claimed. It is based on paragraphs 5ZA and 5A(5) to (7) and (19) of Schedule 9 to FA 1996.